4. Be serious. Unless they’re joking around. If I want a straight answer, I want a straight answer.

5. Ask questions. Nothing is more awkward than saying “oh yeah I want to be an accountant when I grow up” and having them not respond because you didn’t ask “what about you?” or because, really, what can you say to that?

6. Talk about exotic places. And what you would do if you live there. I don’t know about you, but if I lived in London and had unlimited cash (because my cohort in crime hunted down a leprechaun [to have as a pet] in Ireland and took money from it – uh, haven’t had this conversation before, nope…), I would definitely buy a truck-load of Maltesers and Toblerone.

7. Pretend like you’re talking with a friend. It’s much easier to talk about random stuff (like making London guards laugh and re-naming Jamaica “JAMaica”) than to freak out about saying the wrong thing or not.

This weekend I went up to the wondrous country of CANADA! Let me just say, Canada must be the country with the best looking guys (maybe Britain and Australia beat them…) because everywhere I turned there was another hot guy. Seriously. Also, I got a super-awesome Canada shirt (I have so much Canada apparel it’s not even funny). And I ate at Tim Horton’s. And drove through Surrey (I have wanted to go to the one in the UK ever since I saw TheHolidayaka the movie where I can stare at Jude Law for 138 minutes). I also went on a super-cool treetop adventure where I walked around IN THE TREETOPS. All in all, a super fun weekend! Except now I have to go back to school and take my finals. Sadness.